I'm working with data from a Foursquare API.
I want to get a list of coffee shops, and am getting that back correctly (I'm using RestKit)... but once I get that list, on my end I need to filter out any coffee shop that is a "Starbucks".
So right now I only know how to pull in all coffee shops, but I don't know how to parse that data once I have it before I serve it into the app table view so that there will be no Starbucks coffee shops listed.
Any ideas how I could do that? Let me know if you need any of my code snippets posted that might help.
EDIT
Normal response type from the API would be:
"venue": [{
"name": "ABC Coffee Shop", {
So I would need to take "name" and filter out any name that was "Starbucks"
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If FourSquare doesn't let you apply a filter to the request, to filter on the name "Starbucks" then what I would do with this is the following.
I would start by deserializing the response into a JSON Object, which in this case will be a dictionary.
NSError *error = nil;
NSDictionary *responseDict = [[NSJSONSerialization JSONObjectWithData:foursquareResponse options:0 error: &error];
NSArray *starbucks = nil;
if (!error) {
NSArray *coffeeShops = responseDict[@"venue"];
starbucks = [coffeeShops filteredArrayUsingPredicate:[NSPredicate predicateWithFormat:@"name = 'Starbucks'"]];
} else {
// handle the error
}
NSLog(@"Starbucks: %@", starbucks");
I didn't test this code but I think it should get you on your way.